Why the Times Square of Yesteryear is still inspiring Jane Dickson, one of New York’s great painters of nightlife
Katie White, Artnet News
September 2019
Jane Dickson’s world is one that comes to life when the rest of us are fast asleep—a nighttime mix of tawdry carnival booths and tattoo parlors, darkened highways and casino gamblers.
A Chicagoan by birth, Dickson has been a steady fixture on the New York art scene for over a generation. Arriving in New York in the late 1970s, she moved to Times Square, a place she would live, work, and raise children for decades, and found herself drawn to the seedier aspects of the world outside her window. Over the years she has cultivated a singular style—think Weegee meets Edward Hopper, with a dash of Seurat—that was often at odds with prevailing tastes. […]